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Average Programmers

Average Programmers
You know that feeling when your code finally compiles after 47 attempts and you feel like you just solved P vs NP? Yeah, that's us. We're out here celebrating like we won the Olympics because we remembered to add a semicolon or figured out it was a typo in the variable name all along. The reality is most of our "wins" are just fixing mistakes we made ourselves five minutes ago. But hey, dopamine is dopamine, and we'll take our victories where we can get them. The bar is underground and we're still doing victory laps.

Got Good Vibes

Got Good Vibes
The absolute DEVASTATION on that developer's face when they realize their entire career, years of education, blood, sweat, and debugging sessions... all reduced to typing "pls fix" into a chatbot. Meanwhile, Chad AI over here just casually solving problems like it's nothing, looking absolutely majestic while doing it. The existential crisis is REAL. We went from "10x engineers" to "please sir, may I have some code" in record time. The future is here, and it's weirdly polite and terrifyingly efficient.

Careful Don't Hurt Yourself

Careful Don't Hurt Yourself
You know you've reached peak senior dev status when your team watches you debug like you're defusing a bomb. No fancy IDE features, no AI copilots—just you, a console, and the raw determination to prove you still remember how to code without autocomplete. The collective anxiety is palpable. They're all thinking "please don't break production" while you're manually stepping through code like it's 1995. Meanwhile, you're sweating because you forgot where you put that semicolon and your pride won't let you admit you should probably just use the debugger. Bonus points if you're doing this in prod because "it's just a small fix" and now everyone's Slack status just changed to "watching nervously."

The Code Run Time Errors Please Fix

The Code Run Time Errors Please Fix
We've reached the point where developers have outsourced their entire debugging workflow to ChatGPT and Claude. Just paste the error, stare intensely at the screen like you're summoning ancient spirits, and wait for the AI overlords to fix your mess. Gone are the days of actually reading stack traces or understanding what your code does. Why waste time learning when you can just vibe check your way through production? The LLM becomes your personal debugger, therapist, and rubber duck all in one. Honestly though, we've all been there. Sometimes you just want the answer without the journey. But remember: the LLM is just guessing based on patterns. It doesn't actually run your code or understand your specific context. So when it confidently tells you to add await to a synchronous function, maybe take a second to think it through.

Never Do Early Morning Coding😂

Never Do Early Morning Coding😂
That 4 AM code hits different when you're riding the caffeine wave and everything just *clicks*. You're basically an architectural genius building impossible structures that defy logic. Then you come back after some sleep and realize you've basically summoned a lizard to destroy your own castle. The confidence-to-competence ratio at 4 AM is truly something science should study. Sleep-deprived coding is like drunk texting your ex, except the ex is your production environment and the text is a commit that somehow passed your own code review. Future you will have questions. Many, many questions.

Plan Vs Execution

Plan Vs Execution
You know that feeling when you architect the most elegant solution in your head during your morning shower? Clean interfaces, perfect separation of concerns, SOLID principles everywhere. Then you sit down at your keyboard and suddenly you're Captain Jack Sparrow's budget cosplay cousin who can't remember basic syntax and is Googling "how to reverse a string" for the 47th time this year. The mental model is always a blockbuster movie. The actual implementation? More like a community theater production where half the cast forgot their lines and the props are held together with duct tape and deprecated libraries. But hey, it compiles (eventually), and that's what counts on the sprint review.

When Are The 3 Months Gonna End

When Are The 3 Months Gonna End
So you're out here pulling all-nighters, manually grinding through the tedious logic and soul-crushing repetitive tasks, making ChatGPT your personal code monkey while the AI doomsday prophets keep screaming that robots will steal your job in 3 months. Plot twist: you've basically become the puppet master pulling the strings, making the AI do YOUR bidding. The irony is absolutely *chef's kiss* – everyone's terrified AI will replace developers, but here you are, already replacing yourself with AI to do the boring stuff while you handle the actual thinking. Those 3 months? Yeah, they came and went, and we're all still here, just with fancier autocomplete. The real horror is realizing you're not being replaced – you're just being promoted to AI babysitter.

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us Fifty One Years

This Little Maneuver Gonna Cost Us Fifty One Years
Writing code is pure bliss. You're in the zone, fingers flying across the keyboard, creating beautiful abstractions, feeling like a god. Then you hit run and something breaks. Now you're stepping through line 247 for the 18th time, questioning every life decision that led you to this moment, wondering if that business degree your parents suggested wasn't such a bad idea after all. The debugging phase is where dreams go to die and Stack Overflow tabs multiply like rabbits. You'll spend 4 hours hunting down a bug only to discover you misspelled a variable name or forgot a semicolon in a language that actually needs them. The ratio of coding time to debugging time is basically a lie we tell ourselves to get through the day.

Before And After LLM Raise

Before And After LLM Raise
Remember when typos in comments were embarrassing? Now they're a power move. Since AI code assistants became mainstream, developers went from apologizing for spelling mistakes to absolutely not caring because the LLM understands perfectly anyway. That smol, insecure doge representing pre-AI devs who meticulously proofread every comment has evolved into an absolute unit who just slams typos into comments with zero shame. Why? Because ChatGPT, Copilot, and friends don't judge your spelling—they judge your logic. The code works, the AI gets it, ship it. Honestly, this is peak developer evolution: from caring about presentation to pure functionality. The machines have freed us from the tyranny of spellcheck.

I'm In Danger!

I'm In Danger!
Someone bought an O'Reilly book called "Vibe Coding: I'm a Developer Now" featuring Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons looking blissfully unaware at his MacBook. This is what happens when you skip the fundamentals and go straight to copying Stack Overflow answers without understanding what they do. The book doesn't exist, obviously. But if it did, Chapter 1 would be "Just Add More Console.Logs Until Something Works" and Chapter 2 would be "Why Reading Error Messages Is Optional." The author bio would just say "Has 47 browser tabs open at all times." Ralph's expression perfectly captures that moment when your code somehow works in production but you have absolutely no idea why. You're not debugging anymore, you're just vibing. And when it breaks? Well, that's future you's problem.

Garbage Is Garbage

Garbage Is Garbage
You can write the most elegant, artisanal, hand-crafted code with perfect variable names and comments that read like poetry. You can spend hours refactoring, optimizing, and making everything *just right*. But when the garbage collector shows up, it doesn't care about your feelings or your code aesthetics. It sees memory that needs freeing, and it's taking out the trash—whether that's your beautifully architected object or some janky temp variable you forgot about. Democracy in action: all unused memory is equal in the eyes of the GC.

Three Types Of Vibe Coders

Three Types Of Vibe Coders
The AI gold rush has created three distinct species of developers, and none of them are actually writing code anymore. First up: the Prompt Junkie , desperately tweaking their ChatGPT prompts like a gambler convinced the next spin will hit jackpot. "Just one more iteration bro" - famous last words before spending 4 hours prompt engineering what would've taken 20 minutes to code yourself. Then there's Programming in English guy, who's essentially become an AI therapist. You're not coding anymore, you're having philosophical conversations with Claude about edge cases while it hallucinates increasingly elaborate solutions. The irony? You need to understand programming deeply to even know what to ask for. It's like needing a law degree to hire a lawyer. Finally, the Grifter - selling $3000 courses on "AI prompting" to people who think they can skip learning fundamentals. Spoiler alert: if your entire business model is "type sentences into ChatGPT," you're not building a moat, you're building a sandcastle at high tide. The punchline? All three are getting "Paywalled" - because OpenAI's API costs add up faster than AWS bills on a misconfigured Lambda function. Welcome to the future where you pay per token to avoid learning syntax.